When Thomas Edison developed the first movie camera and at the same time provided the public with the first entertainment films, the latter were mostly very short sketches that were more like plays captured on celluloid than a new art form. Statically positioned, the hustle and bustle on stage was now followed by the camera. Only gradually did they move away from the concept of the play and begin to move the camera themselves, introducing film cuts and complex plots. More than a hundred years later, film is undisputedly an art form in its own right, which in turn divides itself into different forms. From feature films, series and short films to documentaries, independent categories with their own rules and professions have emerged.

Artificial intelligence is a new form that will help art to take on new forms. A few videos that play with our previous expectations show us how. Dancing spaghetti and ramen noodles or meat letters are among them and give us a first insight into how creative work can be given new possibilities for play.

How is such a video created? This is described by AI animator James Gerde in a LinkedIn post. Together with Tyler Bernabe of Civitai, they took the recording of pole dancer @iamnirvanaofficial and, among other things, enlisted the two generative AIs Animatediff in comyui to turn the original video into dancing ramen noodles. The result is this sensual meal:

Even if a new technology is often no longer seen as a tool for saving costs and increasing production at first, the question should be asked as to how it can be used in such a way that previously impossible things can be done with it. While many people initially think of autonomous cars as a way to eliminate the need for a driver, it opens up the possibility of designing completely new types of vehicles, such as delivery robots or the self-driving supermarket on wheels.

This is also the case here. The following video gives us an example of how we can not only create existing forms of film with a new tool like AI, but completely new ones.

With these video examples, the door to the creative future has already opened a small crack and it promises a lot.